Nurse Leaders: An Important Role In Health Care

Nurse leaders play an important role in creating a strong organizational structure. Nurse leaders wear many hats; to name a few of their titles are observers, thinkers, facilitators, challengers, advocators, teachers, data collectors, and coaches (Salmela, Eriksson, & Fagerstom, 2012). One important role for a nurse leader is being able to implement important changes in their organization. It only takes one nurse to make a ripple effect on healthcare and create a need for change. Being a leader means forming our future by changing the way others think (Harkreader, 2007). Having advanced practice nurses in healthcare, pushing for associate degree nurses to get a baccalaureate degree, and encouraging all staff to participate in education …show more content…
A formalized treatment plan should be designed for each patient involving at least a mental health professional, a surgeon, a gynecologists and pharmacist. The mental health professional should discuss self-image issues and help diagnose gender dysphoria and anxiety. According to Unger (2014), gender dysphoria is when a person’s birth sex does not correlate with the sex they believe they are. This effects an individual’s desire to change their sexual characteristics to the opposite sex. A standard of evaluation should be completed on each patient and a care plan created for them. The surgeon should be responsible for explaining all the risk and benefits and expectations from surgery in verbiage the patient can understand. They should make sure they are providing surgery only after the patient has been cleared by the mental health professional. The gynecologists need to address changes with future gynecological care following transition, with information on vaginal cuff screenings and further evaluations. Pharmacists need to be involved to give education regarding hormone therapy (if needed) and medication review and